Museum Studies Program Blog
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MSP16 trip to Chicago
In October 2016 the group traveled to Chicago for a few days to visit some museums. Here are some highlights.
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MSP’ers at The Henry Ford
MSP current students (Sarah McLusky and Lauren Stamm) and alumni (Caroline Braden) work in various capacities at The Henry Ford.
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Detroit workshop April 15 – New Voices and Detroit Museums: From Midtown and Beyond.
Friday, April 15 9:30 am – 12:45 pm UM Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium Today, the city of Detroit is once again taking its place at the heart of the United States’ cultural landscape—as a center of creativity, imagination, artistic production and...
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2015 Annual Michigan Museums Association Conference
The 2015 annual Michigan Museums Association Conference was held on the campus of the University of Michigan. The Museum Studies Program assisted in coordinating this event, and many of our faculty, alumni, and students participated in a highly successful conference.
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Alumni kudos!
Kudos to… Aimee VonBokel (MSP08) who was recently featured in the St. Louis American on a course she taught at Washington University called “Decoding Historic Landscapes,” discussing the enmeshed relationship between real estate and racism.
Museum bicentennial book!
MSP Director, Carla Sinopoli, and MSP Steering Committee member, Kerstin Barndt, have collaborated on a UM bicentennial book to highlight the history of the university’s museum collections. The book is called “Object Lessons & the Formation of Knowledge.” Carla and Kerstin will promote and...
Museums at Noon fall schedule
Museums at Noon (previously called brown bags) is our afternoon series of presentations by students and museum professionals discussing their current projects in the world of museums. Join us at noon in the UM Museum of Art auditorium for any of these diverse presentations. ...
Alumni kudos!
Kudos to… Marc Levitt (MSP08) who presented at last year’s Society of American Archivists meeting on a panel entitled, “Embedded Archivists—Exploring New Depths in Teaching with Primary Sources,” and will present at this year’s upcoming Society of American Archivists meeting. Marc will be moderating and...
Alumni kudos!
Kudos to… Tasha Rijke-Epstein (MSP07) has recently accepted a tenure-track position in African History at Vanderbilt University.
Alumni kudos!
Kudos to… Monica Patterson (MSP07) has recently begun a new position at Carleton College as Head of their Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies, a one-year interdisciplinary program designed for current MA and PhD students who wish to integrate curatorial training into their degree programs, or international and professional...
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